Concurrent powers are shared between the federal government and state governments. Concurrent powers include, but are not limited to: Setting up courts Creating and collecting taxes Building highways Borrowing money Making and enforcing laws Chartering banks and corporations Spending money for the betterment of the general welfare Taking (condemning) private property with just compensation

The Elastic Clause (Necessary and Proper) The Elastic Clause gives Congress the authority to "make all laws which shall be necessary and proper." (Article I, Section 8 ) Chief Justice John Marshall referred to the Elastic Clause in 1819 McCulloch v. Maryland: that it "purport[s] to enlarge, not to diminish the powers vested in the government. It purports to be an additional power, not a restriction on those already granted."

The Enumerated Powers The enumerated powers are a list of specific responsibilities found in Article 1 Section 8 of the United States Constitution, which enumerate the authority granted to the United States Congress. Section 8: The Congress shall have power To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; To borrow money on the credit of the United States; To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes; To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States; To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;

Enumerated Powers To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States; To establish post offices and post roads; To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court; To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations; To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water; To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years; To provide and maintain a navy; To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces; To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;

Enumerated Powers To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;—And To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.

Implied Powers Implied powers are powers that are not stated in the Constitution, but are implied by the government's need to carry out its functions. Alexander Hamilton is noted for first arguing that the Constitution gives Congress implied powers to protect the “general welfare” of the nation.

Inherent and Reserved Powers Inherent powers are defined as those powers necessary for a government to rule. According to Black’s Law Dictionary, these are “powers over and beyond those explicitly granted in the Constitution or reasonably to be implied from express grants.” However, Justice Hugo Black argued in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952) that “The president's power, if any, … must stem either from an act of Congress or from the Constitution itself.” Referring to reserved powers, Justice Black argued that the power of the president was limited by the tenth amendment: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”